This painting refers to the alphabet quilt in my novel A
Silent Woman or Being mad myself...

It is the story of a woman haunted by voices;

voices that say she's mad, or she's lost her memory, or that
she's only pretending;

voices that read to her, or talk about her as if she were
deaf.
Among the voices she hears is that of Maisie who endlessly
recites the ABC
from the alphabet quilt in the hope that this will stir her
mother's memory.